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Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.

~Barbara Amiel

Topics: Camps Cut Cutting Dictatorships Down Expedient Hands Harassment Labour Life Mention Off People Sending Sexual Simple Trial Without

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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

~Barbara Amiel

Topics: Extent Liberty Some Vice Virtue

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When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

~Barbara Amiel

Topics: Am Ashamed Faced Fatigue Inevitable Rather Recycling Small Speeches Stream Thoughts Urged Vortex I Am

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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

~Barbara Amiel

Topics: Century Feudalism Sense Totalitarianism Word

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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.

~Barbara Amiel

Topics: Children Devour Feeding Them Will World

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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

~Barbara Amiel

Topics: Confusion Idea New Nothing Peculiar Progress Recent Sometimes Time Understood West Whatever

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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

~Barbara Amiel

Topics: Africa America Apartheid Course Dictators Latin Latin America Military Other Outside Regime Regimes Sort South South Africa Unpleasant Walls Well

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The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

~Barbara Amiel

Topics: Divided Enslaved Free Today World

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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

~Barbara Amiel

Topics: Also Liberty Mafia Me Members Protects Same

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The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.

~Barbara Amiel

Topics: Aid China Currency Empire Hard Little Loans Might Military More Our People Reached Republic Requires Soviet Technology Time Tourists Western

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: December 4th, 1940

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